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...last week, the accounts had done so much to dissolve the President's denials that the White House unrolled a new strategy. Its best hope was to make a story out of The Story, implicitly strike at the press for trafficking in confidential material while attacking Starr's prosecutors for leaking it--whether they actually had or not. Though the reports may have come from many directions, it served Clinton's purpose to focus his fire on his most powerful, least popular enemy, Ken Starr. The prosecutor's tactics have never been popular with a public increasingly sensitive to invasions...
...that was not all. The Times also reported that when Lewinsky was subpoenaed by Jones' lawyers in December, she was worried about having to turn over the gifts Clinton had given her. She reportedly told Starr that the President had offered some incriminating advice: If you don't have the gifts, he said, you can't very well hand them over, can you? A box from Lewinsky containing a dress, a hatpin and a brooch later found its way into Currie's possession. She also reportedly told investigators that Clinton and Lewinsky had indeed been alone together...
White House aides may portray Starr as a leaker and a bully, but he doesn't really have to answer to anyone; he just has to build a case. And it may have been a calculated gamble he was making. "He's trying to lock in all the other witnesses and figure out all the other stuff they know," says a former prosecutor familiar with the case. "That way, he can question Monica. If you're a little bit dubious about the trustworthiness of your star witness, it's not a bad strategy to lock down everything she might...
...steward, who is in the White House day and night; and Currie the personal secretary, who works long hours; and George Stephanopoulos, who was Clinton's alter ego; and Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff; and then Kris Engskov, the body man who carries Clinton's coat. Starr has subpoenaed the phone logs and entrance logs and sought the testimony of Secret Service agents. And he has done all this in the same 10-day period during which he was searching Monica's apartment, questioning relatives, pursuing leads from her proffer and all the while refusing to grant...
...only other person who knows what did or did not occur when the doors were closed. Lewinsky and her lawyers began the week thinking they were about to tell their story at last. Ginsburg sent in his written proffer on Monday along with the agreement written by Starr's office granting Monica immunity. The two sides, Ginsburg claims, agreed on a schedule of interviews in which Lewinsky would sit down through the week with FBI agents in California. Satisfied that the immunity dance was finally over, the whole traveling circus left town for a brief reprieve and a visit with...